Spooky Home Decor Tree using Cricut Happy Hauntings – GIVE AWAY

I love this tree!  You can make one too!

I used the Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge to make this great spooky 3D tree.  I love that this cartridge has so many fun things to make.  The 3D items are so well designed that they’re pretty easy to put together.  I did have to make one of the slits a little longer to fit these together, but that could be due to the multiple layers and chip board. 😉

The Blue Blade Housing is the Deep Cut Blade.

I used the deep cut blade set on 6, pressure set at 5 and multi cut set to 4.  I’m unsure of the thickness of this chipboard, but let’s say it’s a little thicker than a cereal box.  You know how much I love to use cereal boxes in place of chipboard, but this time I actually used chipboard.  I’m just a wild woman, LOL!

I moved the blade to the 8.5×11″ place on the chipboard because I was next going to use 8.5×11″ cardstock to cut out the same image.  You can find out exactly where your blade is on the page by pressing  “set paper size” (it’s on the overlay).  That’s how I found the 8.5×11″ spot on this 12×12″ chipboard.  Then I pressed “Fit to Page”.  That made the tree cut out at 8″.  I know the little screen is showing 2 3/4″, but it’s not actually using that size since I pressed “Fit to Page”.

Awesome Chipboard tree!

When using chipboard, make sure that your mat is sticky.  I had a non sticky one first and…you guessed it…my chipboard moved all around.  Boo hoo. 🙁

Now for the regular blade!

This tree looks more complicated than it is.  Really it’s just 2 pieces.  Isn’t that amazing?  I cut the 2 necessary pieces out of chipboard.  Next, I used the regular blade and cut out each side of the 2 pieces using black cardstock.  When I did this, I used FLIP on one side of each tree piece.  Overall, I cut 2 chipboard pieces and 4 cardstock pieces.

Here’s the Happy Hauntings Booklet.

You see?  It really is just 2 parts!  I did the main tree on the left.  If you use the Layer 1 Function then you can cut out a completely different tree.  That’s just cool!  I wish it had even more trees.  I’d have a whole little Narnia going on. 😉

Before Gluing Branches.

Honestly, I wanted to leave the tree like this.  I thought it looked super cool.  However, I also wanted to see how the finished project would look if I followed the basic idea of the cuts.  So, I glued everything together.

Here’s a close up of Zip Dry right out of the bottle.

One of my readers asked me if Zip Dry Paper Glue is thick.  It pretty much goes on as thick or thin as you’d like it, but it has a good consistency and doesn’t pour out fast.  I really like that you can roll off any excess after it has dried.  Very nice.

Here are the trees getting the “glue treatment”. 😉

I used Zip Dry to glue it all together and Black Diamond Stickles for that added bling!

And then…and THEN… TA DA!!

I LOVE THIS TREE!

LEAVE A COMMENT TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN A BOTTLE OF ZIP DRY PAPER GLUE.  WOO HOO!  I’ll choose 2 winners for a bottle of Zip Dry donated by the AWESOME Beacon Adhesives!  (Their adhesives ROCK!) Winners chosen Saturday, Oct 9.

Congratulations to the winners!

#  winnielosie Says:
October 5th, 2010 at 7:29 AM e
Awesome tree Joy…..Vicky

#  CrafTsp Says:
October 8th, 2010 at 2:13 AM e
Thank you for your wonderful projects! You are so inspiring. I would love the opportunity to win a bottle of zip dry

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